St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-13
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

The heaviest rain known by the "oldest
inhabitant" of Wheeling, w. Va, fell there
/ recently, the fall being over two inches in
three-quarters of an hour. Many cellars and
some first floors were flooded. There was
vivid lightning. The temperature which
had been $50 in the shade, was reduced to
$40 by the storm.
The captain of the Sea Foam, at Glouces-
ter, Mass, from the banks, reports that in
Ipswich bay he picked up a boat containing
knives and forks, two umbrellas, several
cooking utensils, pair of childs shoes and
some small clothes. There was no name on
the boat or articles. She was partly filled
with water.
Grim's dam, covering two acres, near Boyer
town, Pa, burst through its breast, eighteen
feet high, and the torrent destroyed every
thing in its path.
At South Norwalk, Conn, lightning
wrecked dwelling killed young woman
on the road, and made a man in boat on
the river totally blind.
A young woman named Sheehan, eighteen
years of age, was killed by lightning while
standing in a yard during storm at Yates
Centre, Kan.
During a thunderstorm at Hadensville,
KY, three colored persons-Solomon Snow
den, Moses Watkins and Alice Cross-took
shelter under tree, and all were killed by
lightning.
A telegram from Easton says that about
twenty houses in Northampton county, Pa,
and eight in Warren county, N. j., were
damaged by lightning. Many cellars in
Easton were flooded, and the damage to
streets and pavanents by wash-outs is esti-
mated at $4,000.
A reunion of colored veterans of the war
has been held in fremont Temple, Boston.
The galleries were crowded, and the main
floor was filled with veterans. The decora-
tons were profuse, including flowers. Among
the invited guests were General J. c. CARING
ton; Major n. E. Ladd, of Cleveland;
Majors Mckay and Garrison, of Boston;
Lieutenant Fox, and many officers of the
Massachusetts, militia. Lieutenant Dupree
called the meeting to order and made an ad-
dress Of welcome. Addresses were also made
by Recorder Trotter, Of the District of Co
lumbia; Governor Kingsley and others.
The first reunion of the German-American
Catholics of the United States is to be held
in Chicago on September 6. The object is to
further the interest of the Catholics in pub
lie and social life; and among the topics to
be discussed are the labor question and the
reorganization of the Catholic press.
The food at Augusta, Ca, is receding
from the main streets, except Upper Green
street, where there is break in one of the
levels of the canal. More than three-fourths
of the city was covered with water from one
to six feet deep. The business section was
not flooded at all. The principal damage
done is to streets and sewers.
Justice Bradley, in the Supreme Circuit
Court at Trenton, N. J., has granted the
motion to dissolve the injunction issued by
Chancellor McGill restraining the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad from building bridge
over Arthur Kill. Counsel for the State
Immediately asked to have the case appealed
and disposed of at once by the appellate
court. Justice Bradley said that after con-
sultation with his colleague, Judge Nixon,
he felt that the injunction ought not to be
revived, for the defendant would be more in
jured by the delay, on account of the limit
of time for the construction OF the bridge
than the complainant would be by not hay
ing it revived.
The free-delivery system will go into oper
alton on September at Chambersburg and
Bethlehem, Pa, and Orange, N. J.
The barn of Elias Reist, Penn town.
ship, Lancaster county, Pa, has been
consumed by lightning. All its contents,
including several animals, were destroyed.
Loss, 5000. Mrs. Abram Witmar, while
looking at the fire, dropped dead from ex-
element.
In Chicago Judge Sheppard overruled the
petition for new trial in the case of Edward
S. Mcdonald and w. J. McGarigle, charged
with conspiracy, and sentenced Mcdonald
to three years in the penitentiary.
A telegram from Sarnia, Ontario, says
that instructions have been received there
from State Attorney Grinnen and the chief of
police of Chicago to& arrest McGarigle on an
Indictment issued at Montreal. DIR. st.
John, the owner of the schooner Blake, has
been arrested and held in $4,000 bail in
Chicago. A warrant was issued for the
arrest of DIR. Dell, st. Johns supposed ac-
complice No application for writ OF
extradition in the McGarlgle case mas YET
been received in Washington. No import
ance is attached there to the point that one
of the owners of the Blake is Canadian,
though there may be some fact not yet
given in the reports which would modify
this view.
A. Whitman, bookkeeper for the Cen
trail Union Telephone Company in Chicago,
has been arrested on the charge of forgery
and committed under s25, 900 bonds. He is
said to have forged two checks for $4,000
each on the Northwestern National Bank
and to have stolen nearly $4,000 from the
company.
Forty picked miners, under charge of
Travelling Passenger Agent Pitt, of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad, have
left Pottsville for Alburta, British Columbia,
where they will be employed in the anthracite
coal mines recently opened there.
The rear coach Of mixed train on the
East Texas railroad ran off the track near
Farmersville, Tex, and fell down an en-
bankment. Seven passengers were injured,
one perhaps fatally.